nisshowcache prints out the contents of the per-machine NIS+ directory cache that is shared by all processes accessing NIS+ on the machine. By default, nisshowcache only prints out the directory names in the cache along with the list of active servers. The shared cache is maintained by nis_cachemgr(1M).

-v

Verbose mode. Print out the contents of each directory object, including the information on the server name and its universal addresses.

/var/nis/NIS_SHARED_DIRCACHE

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

nis_cachemgr(1M), syslogd(1M), nisfiles(4), attributes(5)

Error messages are sent to the syslogd(1M) daemon.

NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the Solaris Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are available in the Solaris 9 operating environment. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.